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Thlaspi alpestre, L., var. occitanum, Jord., Wensleydale, Yorks., 

 Aug., 1892.— C. Cotton. 



Id. Upper Teesdale, Westm., June, 1892.— A. J. Crosfield. 

 Botli plants seem rightly named, but the relative length of the 

 styles and apical lobes of the fruit seem to me to vary. — A. B. 



Cerastium arcticum, Lange. ? Snowdon, August, 1892. — J. L. 

 Williams. Impossible to decide a critical plant on such material. 

 —A. B. 



Stellaria umbrosa, Opiz. Malvern, Wore, June, 1891. — B. F. 

 Towndrow. In English Botany, ed. 3 vol. 2, p. 95, Dr. Boswell 

 Syme quotes Babington's Manual Brit. Bot., ed. 5, p. 54; but the 

 name and description appear in the 1st ed. of the Manual, p. 48 

 (1843). Babington there gives the authority as " Opitz," which 

 is an error, the proper spelling being Opiz. Opitz w&s a doctor 

 at Prague contemporary with Opiz, who named Mentha Opitziana 

 after him in Nomenclator Botanicus, p. 72, 1831. But the plant sent 

 cannot be this var. of S. media as it has the seeds only granulated 

 on the disc, though they are strongly tubercled round the 

 margins. In true umbrosa they are ** closely covered with acute 

 tubercles, which are star-shaped at the base " (Syme). I call 

 this S. neglecta^ Weihe = 8. media, Vill., var. major, Meyer, 

 Chloris Hanoverana, p. 197, 1836; but Koch seems to have 

 published this in his Synop. Mor. Germ, et Helv., ed. 1 p. 1 

 p. 118 (1835) as var. major. The proper authority is, however, 

 S. media, Cyrillo, var. major. 



Geranium var. ? Growing freely among bracken on Dartmoor, 

 May 31st, 1892. — Mrs. Lomax. Is G. macrorhi%on, L., a native 

 of S. and S.E. Europe, from Italy and Austria eastwards ; found 

 also, but as a probable introduction, in Germany, Belgium, and 

 Norway. It is quite unlikely that this plant should have been 

 overlooked in the past, with its showy flowers ; it could not have 

 been easily mistaken for G. pratense or G. sylvaticum (the latter 

 not known from Devon) by any botanist ; and must therefore be 

 regarded as an escape, though found in a situation which it 

 might naturally inhabit. It may readily be distinguished from 

 G. pratense and G. sylvaticum, its nearest British allies, by its 



